Members nothingstock Posted December 7, 2010 Members Share Posted December 7, 2010 I've been away for a few months (medical stuff). Can't find the older reviews anywhere, and I can't even find a place to post opinions on the re-design. I guess they don't want to read complaints anymore. Anyone know how to get to the Legacy Reviews, or are theygone forever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nothingstock Posted December 7, 2010 Author Members Share Posted December 7, 2010 Also, where are the pickup reviews???????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nothingstock Posted December 7, 2010 Author Members Share Posted December 7, 2010 bump for replies, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted December 7, 2010 Members Share Posted December 7, 2010 They've been gone for a while. That has nothing to do with the recent forum software upgrades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members danswon Posted December 7, 2010 Members Share Posted December 7, 2010 looks like HC have {censored}ed up again. seriously, got no problem with the new forums but the new reviews are a joke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cBc Posted December 7, 2010 Members Share Posted December 7, 2010 Yeah even the Google HC legacy links to specific brand/model items just dump you to the (new) main page. What was once a great resource is now pretty much useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted December 7, 2010 Members Share Posted December 7, 2010 Yeah even the Google HC legacy links to specific brand/model items just dump you to the (new) main page. What was once a great resource is now pretty much useless. Yup. So glad those in charge listened and separated the forums from that mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sk8centilli Posted December 7, 2010 Members Share Posted December 7, 2010 Yup. So glad those in charge listened and separated the forums from that mess. Yup x2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nothingstock Posted December 8, 2010 Author Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 The best part is that I can't even find a forum to complain anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Indiana Tones Posted December 8, 2010 Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 Yeah, I was looking earlier today. Suck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guitar Heel Posted December 8, 2010 Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 That was an amazing resource, and now it's just scrapped? I've tried several times in the past few months, and I can't find 'em anywhere. I can't imagine throwing away all the time and effort to compile those reviews. This place amazes me at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cobalt Blue Posted December 8, 2010 Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 The reviews fiasco is, I would suspect, even more detrimental to Harmony-Central than was the forums fiasco.The availability of easily accessible reviews for Christmastime consumers would have brought a lot of traffic to the site, but, just as the biggest shopping season arrived, there were no reviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted December 8, 2010 Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 The reviews fiasco is, I would suspect, even more detrimental to Harmony-Central than was the forums fiasco.The availability of easily accessible reviews for Christmastime consumers would have brought a lot of traffic to the site, but, just as the biggest shopping season arrived, there were no reviews. You are probably right. I get the sense most of us forum users here just use the forum but most musicians aren't forum users and find gear info through online reviews. Back in the day, it was almost impossible to google a guitar, amp or pedal and not stumble across it's HC review page. Now most of those indexed links point to a dead space and reroute you to the home page. I can't see a casual searcher spending much time fumbling with the new interface before they give up and continue their search elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members danswon Posted December 8, 2010 Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 The reviews fiasco is, I would suspect, even more detrimental to Harmony-Central than was the forums fiasco.The availability of easily accessible reviews for Christmastime consumers would have brought a lot of traffic to the site, but, just as the biggest shopping season arrived, there were no reviews. True. Astonishingly bad timing. I've probably used the HC reviews more than anything else on the internet for the last 10-15 years. Oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ExiledCrow Posted December 8, 2010 Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 The reviews fiasco is, I would suspect, even more detrimental to Harmony-Central than was the forums fiasco.The availability of easily accessible reviews for Christmastime consumers would have brought a lot of traffic to the site, but, just as the biggest shopping season arrived, there were no reviews. Yep. Much as I like shooting the {censored} with ya'll, the reviews were a tremendous resource, and the reason I'm here in the first place. It would be a shame if they were lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted December 8, 2010 Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 Yep. Much as I like shooting the {censored} with ya'll, the reviews were a tremendous resource, and the reason I'm here in the first place. It would be a shame if they were lost. Hopefully all that data is backed up on a server somewhere and just obscured by Jive's {censored}ty software. I'm sure thats the case. HC has made some mistakes but they have to be aware of worth that resource had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ExiledCrow Posted December 8, 2010 Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 I heard with the update they were going to need time to get that all indexed and whatnot ... any hope that it's just that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cuppster Posted December 8, 2010 Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 Are the numerous reviews listed under "User Reviews" not the ones you're talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GilmourD Posted December 8, 2010 Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 Has anybody asked Anderton about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guitar Heel Posted December 8, 2010 Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 Are the numerous reviews listed under "User Reviews" not the ones you're talking about? You used to be able to sort my brand, alphabetically, then model, the same way. Then, for some, you'd see reviews back into the 90's, so that you can check out differences between years, waste a lot of time at work, etc. It was good stuff. I've yet to find anything close to that lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ExiledCrow Posted December 8, 2010 Members Share Posted December 8, 2010 Yep, just went and looked for reviews of Peavey, no Classic 30 listed. Seems like a pretty standard amp to be missing. And, of course, there's the extra special feature that anytime you go into one product review, lets say Peavey Penta for kicks ... hm, you read it over, so far so good. THEN you want to check out another Peavey. You hit the back button. Does it take you back to Peavey amps? No, it does not. It takes you back to the unsorted list of amps, where you have to start all over. Cumbersome, to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cuppster Posted December 9, 2010 Members Share Posted December 9, 2010 I'll grant you, the HC2.0 Review layout sucks ballz (although it does seem a little better than it was a few months ago), and I ran into the exact same problem when I was buying my own Classic 30. But there are, for instance, over 300 reviews for the Fender Standard Strat, so I have to believe at least some of the old reviews are there. It has to be some sort of database problem, or else they just lost a portion of the older reviews at some point. A lot of the reviews have "last update" dates of the exact same day, which is probably the day they ported them over to the new site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members danswon Posted December 9, 2010 Members Share Posted December 9, 2010 Gonna wait and hope for the best - that it ends up something like it was before. But why aren't they telling us what's going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bluesidae Posted December 10, 2010 Members Share Posted December 10, 2010 Christmas is coming and I would like to do some research on a few guits... I used to always start with the HC reviews. Bummer. I guess I will have to go try out the guitars for myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nothingstock Posted December 10, 2010 Author Members Share Posted December 10, 2010 I would love to "ask Anderton about it" but I can't find a forum or link to even do that. Craig, are you listening-reading-whatever? "Is anybody out there?" would be the question of the hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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